The School of Social Work carries out its mission to provide an open and diverse learning environment to fulfill the fundamental tenets of the social work profession. 聽The School makes ongoing efforts to provide a learning context in which respect for all persons and an understanding of diversity (including age, class, color, disability, ethnicity, family structure, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation) are practiced. 聽Our commitment informs the structure and content of the School's curriculum, classroom practices and procedures, the screening and recruitment of faculty and students, decisions regarding field education settings and the focus of their work, and the promotion of experiences, practices, and learning opportunities that introduce students to issues concerning difference and that model an understanding of and respect for diversity.
Below is a brief list of campus-based and local resources that are committed to diversity and human rights advocacy. Each provides students with rich opportunities for broadening their understanding of human diversity.
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American Indian Student Services Office
Missoula
Classroom Learning Activities
Field Experience to the Flathead Reservation
鈥淢ental Wellness鈥 鈥 a course in which recipients of mental health services work with social work students to develop campus-based support models.
Presentations by Native American authors and social work professionals, including Janet Campbell Hale, author of聽Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter, and Iris聽PrettyPaint, a social work educator and developer of a Native family empowerment model
Grant Activity
The School was awarded a聽聽grant to develop practicum placements in aging-related practicum sites for students interested in aging. 聽
Practicum Placements
聽- a short-term shelter for homeless adults and families
聽- provides basic health care to low-income individuals and families
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聽- outreach services for low-income families.
聽- a residence for pregnant and parenting teens
聽- leadership development for pre-teen and teenage girls